Post by K'Sennia Visitor on Jul 8, 2018 18:47:22 GMT
I confess to not knowing every single writer in the world, nor am I privy to the contents of every single writer's nightmares. But I bet one of those nightmares is losing all your bloodsweated words. It can happen when a harddrive fails, when an automatic backup doesn't save, when your finger slips and the file you were moving gets lost, when your kitty takes a stroll across your keyboard at the worst moment possible.... etc. Also sometimes you write something, hate it, delete it in a rage, then calm down a few days and instantly regret the deletion.
My perfect invention would be a machine that could connect to every single computer I have ever owned or written on, and if it could completely clone, save, and bring back to this reality everything I have ever written, downloaded, or saved - that would be brillmazingtasticsome-a-million.
Since I don't have one of those miracle machines yet I rely on ctrl-z and recuva. Ctrl-z undoes your last action, and Recuva is a free file recovery program that searches harddrives and recycle bins for deleted files. I love it muchly, even if half of the things it finds on deep scan have been overwritten and are non-recoverable. It's still helpful since I suffer from absentminded deletion disease. there are many other file recovery programs out there, but recuva has the best free option.
If you're not in the habit of emptying your recycle bin you might get lucky and find it in there without need of any other program. The recycle bin doesn't delete anything on it's own unless it gets too full. And if you don't regularly use CC cleaner and defrag your computer, recuva should work really well at recovering your files. If you didn't delete it, but just can't find your file try searching My PC, or the Mac equivalent version.
Also, most word processors have a backup folder where they keep all your backups of documents you haven't saved. So if your computer shuts off before you saved it, you should be able to find it in that program's backup folder.
My perfect invention would be a machine that could connect to every single computer I have ever owned or written on, and if it could completely clone, save, and bring back to this reality everything I have ever written, downloaded, or saved - that would be brillmazingtasticsome-a-million.
Since I don't have one of those miracle machines yet I rely on ctrl-z and recuva. Ctrl-z undoes your last action, and Recuva is a free file recovery program that searches harddrives and recycle bins for deleted files. I love it muchly, even if half of the things it finds on deep scan have been overwritten and are non-recoverable. It's still helpful since I suffer from absentminded deletion disease. there are many other file recovery programs out there, but recuva has the best free option.
If you're not in the habit of emptying your recycle bin you might get lucky and find it in there without need of any other program. The recycle bin doesn't delete anything on it's own unless it gets too full. And if you don't regularly use CC cleaner and defrag your computer, recuva should work really well at recovering your files. If you didn't delete it, but just can't find your file try searching My PC, or the Mac equivalent version.
Also, most word processors have a backup folder where they keep all your backups of documents you haven't saved. So if your computer shuts off before you saved it, you should be able to find it in that program's backup folder.
